Materiales

Se presentan algunas ideas sobre el análisis de la arquitectura, entendido como proceso de conocimiento, y sobre el dibujo como lenguaje distintivo, valorando su importancia en la ideación y narración de la arquitectura, para imaginarla, conocerla y darla a conocer.

The expert contributors to this lavishly illustrated volume, devoted entirely to Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929, address here for the first time the forgotten contexts of the Pavilion's genesis. Habitually thought of as an abstract, unpolluted, and splendidly isolated building--a precursor of Mies's American period--the Pavilion is revealed here as a thoroughly European work, perhaps less pristine but more authentic. Mies and Lilly Reich were commissioned to design not only the Pavilion but also more than one hundred thousand square feet of German stands spread throughout the...

Este libro presenta dos ensayos que buscan ampliar el horizonte de qué significa la modernidad y la arquitectura moderna en Colombia, y a la vez precisar su sentido de cómo acotar el término arquitectura moderna y las categorías que han sido acogidas en la tradición de la teoría, la crítica y la historia de la arquitectura colombiana. El ensayo sobre Gabriel Serrano Busca definir la ideología que definió su práctica arquitectónica desde el programa arquitectónico como programa ideológico. El ensayo sobre Dicken Castro muestra la senda moderna que abre Dicken Castro en la...

The transformation of public space in Mexico City through the years are evident, the population growth and its demands has resulted in a complex network of resources necessary for the coexistence and development in the city. Just to illustrate this phenomenon from one Delegation, Coyoacán, to size the number of factors that shaped the urban environment of this century. To further explore the topic, the study is divided into three distinct areas of the delegation and is exemplified in the history of the creation of these spaces through maps and graphs that they add images and allowing the...